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Updated Features

· Updated JavaScript engine

This release presents an updated built-in JavaScript engine (used in Structure Viewer). It is ES2015 compliant and has much better script execution performance. This is a breaking change. Consult the included documentation for more information.

Version 6.25.00.5960

Released on: 3/1/2017

Fixed Bugs

· Multiple bug fixes

A number of reported and internally discovered errors have been fixed.

· Fixed memory leak

Application allocated and never freed memory when recursive structures were used in Structure Viewer.

· Incorrect rendering of floating-point numbers

Floating-point numbers in range (-1..0) were displayed incorrectly in Structure Viewer, Data Inspector and other components.

New Features

· Explorer window settings persistence

Explorer windows now remember last recently used folder settings.

· New format specifier

Structure Viewer now allows new format specifier 'c' in format() function and [format] attribute. It forces rendering of integer values as single-byte or UNICODE character.

· New directives in Structure Viewer

The following directives have been added to Structure Viewer definition language: $revert_to, $shift_by and $remove_to. They allow having look-ahead during structure binding.

User-defined type does not collapse if it contains other user-defined types and all of them implement [display] attribute. Previously, presence of other user-defined types caused automatic collapsing of a parent type during visualization.

Fixed a various issues with floating-point visualization in both Data Inspector and Structure Viewer.

· Several reported bugs fixed

This release also fixes a number of reported and internally discovered bugs, including application crashes.

New Features

· Dropped support for Windows XP and Windows Vista

Starting from this release, Hex Editor Neo drops support for Windows XP and Windows Vista as well as corresponding server versions. A version that supports Windows XP and Windows Vista is available here.

Updated Features

· Configurable max array/string export length in Structure Viewer

Structure Viewer now allows configuring maximum length of array or string used during export.

· Improved localization support

This release improves the quality of localization support in product. Now most UI elements automatically adjust their size to fit translated strings. This work is still in progress and more UI elements will be supported in new releases.

Version 6.20.02.5651

Released on: 10/9/2015

Fixed Bugs

· Error adding custom structure definition files

It was impossible to add custom structure definition files to the library unless they were put into default folder.

· File comparison colors were not saved correctly

Changed file comparison colors were not saved to settings.

Version 6.20.01.5642

Released on: 9/16/2015

Fixed Bugs

· Volume Navigator steals focus on window switch

When opened volume or physical disk window become active, focus is moved to Volume Navigator window. This has been fixed.

· Data Inspector allows multiple custom rules with same name

It was possible to create several custom rules with the same name. Deleting those rules could later crash the Hex Editor Neo.

Updated Features

· Increased maximum number of editor columns

Editor windows may now display up to 1024 columns.

· Structure Library window now reports missing files

If a file added to the library is not found, it is now marked as missing in Structure Library window. Double-clicking the missing file asks the user if he wants to create it.

Version 6.20.00.5622

Released on: 9/10/2015

Fixed Bugs

· Fixed bugs

Many reported and internally found bugs fixed.

New Features

· Settings Manager introduced

This release introduces Settings Manager, which provides centralized application settings storage and management. User may now choose one of three settings storage locations: per-user Registry location (default), portable mode or external file. Settings may now be exported and imported or shared between computers.

Updated Features

· Size column in Open Volume dialog

Size column has been added to Open Volume dialog.

· Portable mode improvements

Portable mode has been improved thanks to newly introduced Settings Manager. Previously, Hex Editor Neo stored settings in Registry in portable mode and only saved them to a portable.ini file on shutdown.

Now, Registry is no longer used in portable mode and all settings are stored in portable.hexset file located in application startup folder. In addition, portable mode also changes the default language pack storage location as well as structure files location to paths relative to startup folder.

NOTE: Do not use Windows 10 to make a portable installation. Portable installations made on Windows 10 will not work on previous versions of Windows. This will be fixed in future releases.

Version 6.14.00.5453

Released on: 7/16/2015

Fixed Bugs

· Improved stability on startup

Improved compatibility with third-party software that modifies application files during startup. This has caused early re-compilation of structure definition files and could lead to crash.

· Crash if Edit » Cut command used in Find dialog

Application crashed if some editing commands were used in pattern editor in Find, Replace and other dialogs.

A bug that prevented resource directory from correctly binding for PE exectuable files has been fixed.

· Crash in binding broken pointer field

If exception was thrown during calculating pointer field offset, Structure Viewer subsequently crashed during visualization of pointer field.

· Fixed Writable status determination for volumes

Application sometimes incorrectly determined whether the volume was writable or not (incorrectly disabling Read Only checkbox).

New Features

· Data Inspector now has Hex/Dec switch

Data Inspector now has hexadecimal/decimal switch that affects most built-in types.

Updated Features

· Sorted tool windows in View » Tool Windows menu

Tool windows in View » Tool Windows menu group are now sorted, which makes navigation easier.

· CSV export in Structure Viewer

Copy/export code in Structure Viewer has been rewritten from scratch. Now it has excellent performance and better compatibility with CSV. In addition, CSV column separator may be selected in Tools » Settings, General Tab window.

· Structure Viewer window position saving and restoring

Structure Viewer now saves the cursor position in tool window and restores it after the document is active again.

Application crashed if too long file names were displayed during Find in Files operation.

· Possible deadlock on startup

Application could hang on startup.

· Crash on Open Hex and Insert Hex commands

Application crashed when you executed the Open Hex or Insert Hex commands.

Updated Features

· Better support for volumes in Volume Navigator

Volume Navigator now correctly works with different types of volume mount points (including volumes mounted into folders and volumes without mounting points at all). It now also works in localized versions of Hex Editor Neo.

Built-in Structure File Editor with syntax coloring may now be used for creating and editing structure definition files.

· Volume Navigator

Volume Navigator reads opened NTFS-formatted volumes' structure, allowing the user to browse the volume elements such as directories, files, file attributes and streams. Files, directories or entire volumes may be copied to other location. This feature also supports reading damaged volumes.

Updated Features

· Updated Data Inspector

Data Inspector now supports custom types.

· Updated Structure Viewer

Structure Viewer introduces new language functionality, improved stability and new Structure Library window. See the included documentation for complete list of changes in Structure Viewer.

Structure Viewer could incorrectly compile and bind some structure defitions, namely, the ones that contained huge arrays of static types. It could start allocating more and more memory and binding could take too long. Fixed.

· Incorrect file opened after double clicking on error in Structure Errors window

Fixed.

· Incorrect handling of multi-byte encodings

The editor incorrectly rendered Text Pane when multi-byte encoding was selected. This bug has been fixed.

· Several reported bugs fixed

Several reported bugs, including application crashes, have been fixed.

Updated Features

· Selection is now retained when number of columns change

Multiple selection is not dropped when you change the number of columns in the editor window.

· Floating-point numbers in scientific format are now displayed correctly.

· Error saving changes to logical and physical disks

Hex Editor Neo hung during saving of changes to logical and physical disks if the application was launched non-elevated on Windows Vista or later operating systems. Fixed.

· Rare crash on exit fixed

Application could crash on exit. Fixed.

Updated Features

· Installation package size decrease

Due to improved documentation file compression this release is about 30% smaller than previous one.

Version 5.12.01.4748

Released on: 6/26/2012

Fixed Bugs

· Invalid big-endian array visualization

Big-endian simple arrays visualization bug fixed.

· Crash in disassembler

Disassembler module could crash if error occurred during disassembling. It could also crash after pressing the Refresh button. Both issues have been fixed. Note: language pack update is required for non-English language packs.

Updated Features

· Intel HEX import updates

Non-sorted Intel HEX files are now imported correctly. In addition, lines with invalid CRC are ignored.

· Some dialogs re-designed

Some dialogs were re-designed to better fit French localization.

Version 5.12.00.4727

Released on: 5/28/2012

Fixed Bugs

· Crash in disassembler

Hex Editor Neo could crash when you invoked Disassembler in some situations. Fixed.

· Run a guest OS in virtual machine emulation software and keep it running.

· Launch Hex Editor Neo version 5.01 (on the host OS).

· Close Hex Editor Neo.

· There is a chance that your computer reboots, hangs, or generates BSOD 0x101 (CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT).

Obviously it should not be possible for Hex Editor Neo (a user-mode program that does not have any kernel-mode components) to cause this behavior: it appears there is a bug in Windows 7 64-bit kernel that causes this.

We have found the workaround that fixes this problem. Version 5.01.01 uses different system scheduler that seems to be more compatible with virtual machine emulation software.

Several operations, like Find All and Replace All, now utilize several cores or processors (if they are available), providing up to 30% performance boost. Performance boost is more noticeable in Replace All commands, especially in regular expression mode.

· True parallel execution of all lengthy operations

Previous versions allowed you to execute multiple operations in parallel, but user interface was rather limited: for example, it did not allow you to finish the first operation before the second finishes. Now, all started operations are equal and are executed truly in parallel. Application user interface is not blocked. Only windows of the current document are disabled until the operation execution is completed.

· Support for Intel HEX and Motorola S files

Advanced Copy & Export now allows exporting selection into Intel HEX and Motorola S formats. In addition, new commands, File » Open » Open Hex… and Edit » Insert Hex… allow the user to convert Intel HEX and Motorola S files to binary form and insert them into the Hex Editor Neo.

· Additional information is displayed for several lengthy operations

For Find All, Replace All and other operations, the number of occurrences found so far is displayed on the progress dialog.

· Completely rewritten Checksum module

Checksum module has undergone complete rewrite, featuring new algorithms, greatly improved performance and parallel execution. That is, when several algorithms are selected at once, Hex Editor Neo utilizes multiple cores or processors (if they are available) to execute them in parallel.

More hash algorithms are offered (the actual list depends on algorithms available through Cryptography API). More different ways to sum all values in a document or selection are offered, including signed and unsigned sums.

User interface for a Checksum module has also been improved.

· Ability to copy/export the current selection

Hex Editor Neo now allows you to get the list of selected ranges into the Clipboard or directly to text file.

· Goto Navigation panel

Each editor window has its own navigation panel with individual location history.

Application may crash if you switch to floating-point mode after switching off a code pane. Fixed.

· Missing application icon on taskbar

On some computers a taskbar application icon is missing when you start the Hex Editor Neo. Fixed.

Version 4.95.05.3470

Released on: 9/28/2010

Fixed Bugs

· Inability to use Clipboard from scripts

Error using Clipboard from scripts that use Hex Editor Neo's FileDocument object has been found and fixed.

· Invalid copy/export from Structure Viewer

A Structure Viewer's Size column was not exported or copied to Clipboard. Fixed.

Version 4.95.03.3464

Released on: 7/7/2010

Fixed Bugs

· Installation may fail

Hex Editor Neo installation may fail. Fixed.

· Unable to use arrow keys in custom keyboard shortcuts

Fixed.

Version 4.95.01.3454

Released on: 4/12/2010

Updated Features

· Pasting numbers

Now, when text containing numbers is pasted into the code pane in editor window, any invalid character is treated as a separator. In addition, Hex Editor Neo is now able to parse numbers which do not contain any separators at all. For example, "0D0A" will automatically be parsed as two bytes 0D and 0A when pasted in editor window in Byte grouping mode.

Version 4.95.00.3450

Released on: 3/29/2010

Fixed Bugs

· Several bugs in Structure Viewer

Several bugs in Structure Viewer have been fixed.

New Features

· Full UTF-8 support

The editor now fully supports UTF-8 encoding. It can not only display text (in text pane) encoded as UTF-8, but also allows you to type encoded characters on the keyboard or paste from the Clipboard. All editor functions (such as Find, Fill etc.) correctly work with UTF-8.

· Encodings support in Structure Viewer

This release also brings encodings support to the Structure Viewer. Now it uses the encoding currently selected for an editor window to parse single-byte character arrays or string.

Updated Features

· Pasting with encoding

When you paste text to the text pane, the current editor window's encoding is now used to convert the UNICODE text (if it is present in the Clipboard).

Version 4.94.02.3435

Released on: 2/8/2010

Fixed Bugs

· Crash in Explorer window

Hex Editor Neo crashes when you enter an Internet URL in its path box. Fixed. Hex Editor Neo does not support opening Internet resources this way in the current version, but at least it does not crash. Use the File » Open command to open Internet resources in the current version.

New Features

· Ability to open Internet resources

You can now open Internet resources specified by their URLs in the File » Open dialog. The editor will download the file and automatically open its local copy.

Note: you can only use the File » Open dialog to open Internet resources, other methods (command line parameters, drag&drop, Explorer window) may not work.

Version 4.94.01.3431

Released on: 2/4/2010

Fixed Bugs

· Crash in Go to Offset Dialog

Hex Editor Neo may crash when you close the Go to Offset dialog. Fixed.

Version 4.94.00.3427

Released on: 2/3/2010

Fixed Bugs

· Several bugs fixed

Several reported bugs have been fixed.

New Features

· Proxy Server

You can configure a proxy server to use with such functions as Check for Updates, Downloader and Crash Dump Uploader. You can also configure authorization options, if your proxy server requires them.

· Bookmarks in Go to Offset dialog

Current bookmarks are now displayed in the Go to Offset dialog.

· Selection manipulation in Go to Offset dialog

Added an ability to manipulate the current selection directly in Go to Offset dialog. You can replace, add, remove or invert the current selection while changing the cursor offset in the document.

· Portable installation improvements

When installed in portable mode, Hex Editor Neo now stores configuration settings in a file in a folder it is launched from.

Updated Features

· Open Disk dialog improvements

An additional column is added to the Open Disk dialog. It displays the physical drive information in a form of "\\.\PHYSICALDRIVEN", where N is a disk ordinal number assigned by operating system. This allows you to distinguish between the same disks from the same manufacturer.

· Added "Whole file" option to all operation dialogs

All operations (bitwise, arithmetic and shift) dialogs now include the option "Whole file". You can use it to target an operation to a whole file without the need to select it first.

Version 4.93.03.3402

Released on: 11/27/2009

Fixed Bugs

· Checksum: incorrect check for low disk space

Hex Editor Neo prevented the checksum from being calculated when there was low disk space. Fixed.

· Disassembler: file lock

Disassembler continued to lock the file after it was closed. Fixed.

· Disassembler: Reset columns

The Reset column button operated incorrectly. Fixed.

· Invalid progress

Invalid progress was displayed for all operations with UNICODE regular expressions.

New Features

· File Compare: Non-file documents

Now you can compare any type of opened documents using the File Comparison feature.

Updated Features

· Cursor position on document save

The cursor position and editor window focus are now retained on document save.

Version 4.93.02.3398

Released on: 11/19/2009

Fixed Bugs

· Structure Viewer: several bugs

Several bugs in Structure Viewer have been fixed. AVI and WAV sample files were also updated.

Version 4.93.01.3387

Released on: 10/27/2009

Fixed Bugs

· Application crash

Hex Editor Neo crashes when you execute the Pattern Coloring » Add Rule command with no open documents. Fixed.

Version 4.93.00.3384

Released on: 10/22/2009

Fixed Bugs

· Setup: invalid security descriptors

Setup incorrectly configures security descriptors for installed files and shortcuts when you install the product in "per-machine" mode. This may prevent other users from being able to run Hex Editor Neo. Fixed.

· Structure Viewer: bit-fields are now indexed

A bug that prevented bit fields from being indexed is fixed. Now when you click on the cell which contains a bit field in the editor, the field is properly highlighted in Structure Viewer.

PE header sample has been greatly enhanced. Now it parses more PE file structures, including import and export directory, resource directory, base relocation table, debug directory and others. It also illustrates how to use Javascript to extend the power of Structure Viewer's declaration syntax.

· Structure Viewer: $print directive updated

$print directive now does not automatically convert its argument to string; instead it uses Structure Viewer’s data visualization engine. This allows it, for example, to respect the "Display Hex Values" setting when displaying integer values.

· Structure Viewer: pointer visualization

For pointed types, not only the pointer value, but the snapshot of pointed type contents is visualized on a line (as it is for arrays and structures). In addition, a computed address is also displayed.

· Structure Viewer: new javascript keyword

Javascript code now may be specified inline with a new javascript keyword. Note that VBScript code must still be referenced with #pragma script directive.

· Structure Viewer: new statements

Structure Viewer now supports the following statements: while, for and do…while.

· Structure Viewer: support for current encoding

Structure Viewer now uses the current editor window's encoding when displaying non-Unicode strings.

Updated Features

· Mouse selection improvements

Now it is much more easier to select data with mouse. The behavior is more consistent with other Windows applications.

· Cursor move on Paste

Now there is an option to move the cursor to the end of the pasted data after the Paste operation (turned on by default).

· Extended encoding support

All Hex Editor Neo commands (such as Fill, Find, Find All, Replace etc) now respect the current window’s encoding, when single-byte string type is chosen. The current encoding is also displayed in the command’s dialog. Note: when using regular expressions, default system encoding is always used.

Current editor's window encoding is also respected by Pattern Coloring module.

· Clipboard improvements

Now Edit->Copy and Edit->Cut commands automatically put selected data in text format into the Clipboard. Copy & Export tool window is still used to fine-tune the format used.

· Advanced Copy&Export improvements

"Raw Text" copy&export mode also lists "Current Encoding" as encoding type. When selected (default), encoding from the current editor window is used.

Click-and-calculate feature implemented: non-computed checksum value is automatically computed when you double-click it (no need to click checkbox and then Refresh button)

· File Compare improvements

File Compare tool window’s commands are now application-wide commands. You can put them on the toolbar or assign keyboard shortcuts to them.

· Improved power management

Hex Editor Neo now prevents the computer from going to sleep (unattended) when performing lengthy operation. This of course does not prevent the user to manually sleep the computer.

Version 4.91.00.3266

Released on: 9/2/2009

New Features

· New Setup Features

Portable Installation

Setup now offers new installation mode which can be used to make a portable copy of Hex Editor Neo. Once installed, the copy of the product may be transferred to other locations, or to other computers where it can be used without installation. In this mode setup allows the user to install the product on the removable media and network shares.

Transactional Installation

Setup now performs installation of the product as a single transaction (on supported operating systems and configurations). If anything goes wrong during installation, including software or hardware errors, computer configuration is not modified. All setup activities are part of the transaction, including modifications done to the file system and system registry.

Restart Manager Support

Now, when setup needs to replace or remove a locked file, it uses the system restart manager to find the application that has a file open. It also offers a way to gracefully restart the application in order to update the file. This new feature greatly reduces the need for system restart during setup.

Per-User Installation

In addition to the previous, "per-machine" installation mode, a new installation mode is offered. It allows the user to install the application only for himself. In this mode, setup does not modify any per-machine settings. In addition, a user does not have to have administrative rights to install the Hex Editor Neo. After the product is installed in per-user mode, it is not visible to other users of the computer, but may also be installed by them in per-user mode.

Version 4.85.00.3229

Released on: 6/30/2009

Fixed Bugs

· Copy&Paste bug

Data pasted from Clipboard (and previously copied/cut from Hex Editor Neo's document) could become corrupted in some situations. Fixed.

Hex Editor Neo is now capable of working with files shared with other applications. After you open a shared file, Hex Editor Neo starts watching for file's modifications. If another application makes changes to a file, Hex Editor Neo displays a Shared File Conflict Dialog, which gives you options to ignore a change, update editor's copy, and/or merge changes with local changes.

In addition, for all "update"-kind options you may instruct the editor to compare the new version with a previous one. Two file comparison algorithms provided by File Compare module are supported. Hex Editor Neo also allows you to retain older versions of a file in the editor. You may edit these old versions as any other kind of document in the editor, save your changes and so on.

Updated Features

· Elevated privileges notification

When launched with administrative privileges (either through "Run as administrator" option or through automatic elevation in Open Volume, Open Process or Open Disk commands), application title is changed to "Hex Editor Neo (Administrator)" to notify the user that application is running with elevated privileges.

Bitwise, arithmetic, shift and case change operations may crash when used in some configurations. Fixed.

New Features

· Restore original file attributes

File Attributes tool window now offers a way to restore original file attributes, even after you modify them and apply your changes.

· Auto completion in Explorer

Address bar in Explorer tool window now offers autocompletion.

· 2D graph in Statistics

Statistics Tool Window now provides you with two graphical data representations, instead of one.

Updated Features

· NTFS streams support in File Compare

When compared files are identical, they are also checked for one or more alternate streams. A user is warned if two identical files contain NTFS streams.

· Extended goto in Disassembler

Goto command in Disassembler Window now allows you to go to a named function or method. Autocompletion is supported.

Version 4.81.01.3080

Released on: 4/14/2009

Fixed Bugs

· Crash in Disassembler

A possible crash in Disassembler has been fixed. Hex Editor Neo sometimes crashed after refreshing a Disassembly View on a modified document.

· Crash in Disassembler

A possible crash in Find function in Disassembly View has been fixed.

· Explorer bugs

Now it is possible to browse Network and Libraries folders (a latter one on Windows 7 Beta) in Explorer tool window.

· Crash in Explorer

A possible crash in Explorer has been fixed. It sometimes crashed while enumerating a shell folder tree.

· Purge All command crash

A possible crash after History » Purge All command has been fixed.

· Copy&Export bugs

A completely broken behavior in copying/exporting data into programming languages formats (Formatted Output) has been fixed. Now all modes, including Hexadecimal, Decimal, Octal, Binary, Float and Double as well as all grouping options are correctly handled.

· Structure Viewer's zip.h bug

A bug has been reported in the zip.h file that prevented proper recognition of ZIP archives with additional NTFS information in them.

· Several reported and found bugs

Several reported and discovered bugs and inconsistences have been fixed in this release. This also includes more items from our "suggestion queue".

Updated Features

· Minor UI improvements

A few new context menus have been added to the editor.

Version 4.81.00.3057

Released on: 4/8/2009

Fixed Bugs

· Several bugs in Structure Viewer

32-bit integer types (both signed and unsigned) were incorrectly handled in big-endian mode. Note that this did not affect 32-bit signed and unsigned long types. This bug is fixed. In addition, a number of not critical bugs were found and fixed.

· Decrypt function is not working

On some computers it was unable to run a Edit » Decrypt… command. This has been fixed.

· Other minor bugs and suggestions

A lot of small glitches that were in our "suggestion queue" have finally found their time to be fixed in this release.

New Features

· Full history tree window

You can now view the entire document change history in a special window. History is represented as a tree with a node for each document change. You can quickly switch between states, get more information about each state or execute one of the purge commands. Comfortable zooming and panning features are provided by the window.

Updated Features

· Complete rewrite of command routing and toolbar customization system

This release brings completely new version of the command routing and toolbar customization subsystem. We have greatly optimized Hex Editor Neo's startup and runtime performance and brought greater flexibility to user interface customization. Built-in and user-created layouts now not only affect tool windows, but also change commands on default toolbars and size of their buttons.

· Checksums and Statistics now store per-document information

Checksums module and Statistics module now store per-document information. For example, you calculate statistics for a document, switch to another one and calculate statistics for it as well. Now, if you switch back to the first document, Statistics tool window will immediately display information it previously calculated for the first document.

· Changes in the Free Edition End User License Agreement

Free version's EULA now grants commercial usage of the free edition of the Hex Editor Neo.

· Improved Explorer integration

"Edit with Hex Editor Neo" shortcut menu option is now added to drives as well.

· Improved Windows dialog

Windows dialog (it displays a list of all opened editor windows) now automatically activates a window under the cursor. There is no need to click the Activate button anymore.

Version 4.76.00.2905

Released on: 3/17/2009

Updated Features

· Performance improvements

This release focuses on major performance improvement in one of the core Hex Editor Neo components, responsible for working with large files. (Hex Editor Neo considers files bigger than 64 MB on 32-bit systems and bigger than 128 MB on 64-bit systems as large files).

Careful optimizations and wiser use of system resources allowed us to greatly optimize this core component. As performance of most editor functions depends on it, we have managed to improve the speed of various functions from 2x to 8x!

The most boost is displayed in "cheap" operations, like General Statistics and Pattern Statistics, moderate boost in heavier functions as Replace All and less boost in "heavy" functions like Find All, for example.

In addition, document saving performance has also been greatly improved. On some of our test platforms, file copying (File » Open command followed by File » Save As… command) works faster than in Windows Explorer!

· Licensing System update

Until now, each new upgrade required our customers to re-install the license file to re-activate the product. Although this is still required for this update, the licensing system was updated to remove this limitation. All future upgrades will not invalidate the license installed for the 4.76.00.2905.

An offset (or address) may now be displayed as hexadecimal, decimal or octal numbers.

· New view types

In addition to hexadecimal, decimal, float and double, data in editor windows may now be displayed as octal and binary values. All Hex Editor Neo's commands and modules are also compatible with new view types, including Copy & Export module.

· New range rule type in Pattern Coloring

Pattern Coloring introduces a special rule type: range rule. For range rule, you define a range which is then hilighted in a document.

· Advanced support for Editor Window settings

You can now configure the default editor window settings on special settings page (Tools » Settings » Editor). These settings include offset display type, data display type and grouping, byte ordering, a number of columns, character encoding and visibility of code pane and text pane. In addition, there is a special option to associate a different set of window settings for each opened document and restore them next time the document is opened.

Updated Features

· Revised Operation History

User interface for document operation history has been completely revised. Now it is much more comfortable to use one of the most powerful and unique Hex Editor Neo's features - history branches.

· Application load-time improvement

A lot of attention in this release has been paid to reduce Hex Editor Neo loading time.

Version 4.73.00.2655

Released on: 1/16/2009

Fixed Bugs

· Several bugs in Structure Viewer

The following bugs are fixed in this release:

> Nested pointers are not supported.> Array size is parsed incorrectly if multiplication is used in size expression.> Invalid script file causes a crash.> Several parser bugs fixed.

· Find in Files

Deadlocks and possible crashes were fixed. In addition, performance for the feature has been increased.

· Explorer

Several bugs are fixed in Explorer and it is now compatible with Windows 7 Beta.

New Features

· Windows 7 Beta support!

This release introduces support for new cool features of the Windows 7 Beta taskbar. Progress indication and jump lists are fully supported and utilized by the Hex Editor Neo, and in addition, user is in control of customizing the tasks presented on the taskbar.

This update fixes an application crash (which occurs in Free Edition or with "Auto Create Branches" option switched off in some circumstances).

Upgrade is strongly recommended!

New Features

· Disassembler

Version 4.72 brings support for x64 executables.

Version 4.71.02.2507

Released on: 12/9/2008

Fixed Bugs

· Several bugs

Several bugs, including application crashes, have been fixed.

Version 4.71.01.2503

Released on: 12/8/2008

Fixed Bugs

· Several bugs

Several bugs, including application crashes, have been fixed.

Version 4.71.00.2491

Released on: 11/28/2008

Fixed Bugs

· Purge All History and Load History commands

These commands did not work properly in Free Edition mode.

· Copy&Paste bugs

Several bugs with copying and pasting document data have been found and fixed. This may include several application crashes.

· A lot of minor bugs

Quite a few of minor bugs or inconsistencies were found and fixed throughout the product.

New Features

· Disassembler

Version 4.71 brings support for .NET assemblies. It also features an updated disassembler view window, with support for fast navigation, selection of assembly text, column configuration and much more. It also allows you to display an assembly listing in AT&T format.

Disassembler has an improved quality of the assembly listing. Module imports are now also analyzed and displayed, in addition to symbols.

· Structure Viewer

The most of the new functionality is within the Structure Viewer module again. It now understands new built-in types, statements and directives. It also supports variables, constant and variable arrays and expression evaluation with dynamic type inferring.

This release eliminates most of previously imposed limits on structure size, array size etc. The Structure Viewer Tool Window has been updated to easily handle billions of items with very fast and clean navigation. Commands like Expand All and Collapse All will take less than a second expanding/collapsing a structure with a billion of items. If you bind a complex structure to a huge file (for example, AVI), you can estimate the editor to easily carry the job without running out of memory.

A number of handy features, such as Synchronize Position (which works "both sides" - from structure to document and from document to structure), Mouse over field tracking (which highlights a field under the mouse cursor) greatly simplify the file structure analysis.

Structure definitions may extend their functionality by referring to functions written in JavaScript or VBScript. These functions have access to the underlying parser and document, thanks to the IFileDocument and IParser interfaces, exposed to them by the Hex Editor Neo.

The overall compilation and binding performance has been greatly improved. More information about the new functionality provided by the Structure Viewer is found in the included documentation.

· Copy&Export

The Advanced Copy & Export module now follows the model offered by the editor window. It now allows you to execute the Copy and Export commands with no selection present. In this case, a cell under the cursor is copied/exported.

The current byte order is now taken into account when performing copy or export functions.

It also offers an option to configure the number of digits to be exported for floating-point and double precision floating-point types.

· Refresh View Command

When working with logical or physical disks, process or physical memory, this command allows you to refresh the editor window to display any possible changes to the underlying data, performed by some other application or operating system.

· /s Command-Line Parameter

When launched with "/s" command-line parameter, Hex Editor Neo forwards the list of files to open to an already running instance, if there is one.

· "Display cursor address on the left" option

Several customers complained about the address of the cursor location being displayed at the start of the line. Now this functionality can be switched off.

· Reverse sorting on Statistics columns

Statistics window now allows you to sort columns in both ascending and descending order in its table mode.

· New IFileDocument methods to be called from scripts

A previously introduced ISequence object was called to make it possible to call methods of the IFileDocument interface from scripting languages (such as JavaScript and VBScript). Although, our tests has shown, that in some cases it is still impossible for a script to call one or another method due to the limitations in the Automation model and the way scripting engines are implemented.

This release finally resolves the problem by providing a special variant of each affected method. Every such variant may be easily called from the scripting languages.

· Go to in Process

Go to in Process command now interactively updates the cursor position when you click on the image sections or modules (without closing the Go to window).

· UI Sugar

You can now make any tool window appear as a tabbed document. That means that the tool window will not be dockable to one of the four sides of the main window anymore, nor it will float over the main window, but instead will be placed where all editor windows reside. You may then take advantage of the Editor Window Placement feature to position a tool window.

Each tool window now also memorizes its floating position separately of its parent frame.

Ctrl+Mouse Wheel now quickly changes the font size in an editor window. This is a quick way to change a font size without using the Layouts dialog.

New Sequence Object provides scripting languages (such as Javascript and VBScript) a way to build a pattern and pass it to File Document Object methods that require a pattern.

Updated Features

· Structure Viewer

Structure Viewer now supports a sophisticated structure definition language with expression evaluation, pointers and bit fields, case unions and assertions, constants and enumerations and much much more. A full featured C99-compliant preprocessor (with full support for macros and conditional compilation) is run before a source file is compiled.

In addition to the ability to bind a structure to an absolute or relative address or to a cursor position, a structure may now be bound to an expression. This expression may reference constants and enumerations declared on the global source file scope or even reference previously bound structures.

Large documents may get corrupted after modifications are saved in the Hex Editor Neo. This release fixes this bug.

Upgrade is strongly recommended!

Version 4.51.02.1865

Released on: 7/3/2008

Fixed Bugs

· Bookmarks

Next Bookmark and Previous Bookmark commands caused the view to lose focus. Fixed.

Updated Features

· Find in Files

Find in Files feature updates its behavior for the "Find all occurrences" mode. Now located documents are not automatically opened in the editor, thus saving system resources when doing large searches.

Located documents may be opened by double-clicking them in the list or using the Find in Files » Open File command. When you open a document this way, all pattern occurrences are selected in it.

Version 4.51.01.1856

Released on: 7/2/2008

Fixed Bugs

· Base Converter

A number of bugs in Base Converter module have been fixed.

Updated Features

· Disassembler

A disassembler module has been carefully redesigned. It now allows you to have several views opened for the same document, each displaying different parts of it. It also works smoother and faster and fixes a number of bugs.

Version 4.51.00.1826

Released on: 6/27/2008

Fixed Bugs

· Several bugs

A fair number of reported bugs have been fixed.

· Hex Editor Neo on Windows XP 64-bit and Windows 2003 Server 64-bit

On some Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server (64-bit) product does not start. Fixed.

New Features

· Disassembler

Hex Editor now includes a disassembler module. The current implementation is capable of disassembling 32-bit x86 code, including support for FPO, MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow! instruction sets. Disassembler automatically searches for symbol files and uses the information from them to increase the assembly output readability. The Disassembler View may be connected to ordinary editor window which provides you with another handly data viewing and manipulation tool. The disassembler module works with files and processes' memory and is even automatically updated when you modify the document.

· Regular Expressions

Find, Find All, Replace, Replace All, Find in Files, Replace in Files, Pattern Coloring and Pattern Statistics commands and modules now fully support regular expressions. ECMAScript-compatible implementation of regular expressions provide you with extreme power ever found in binary editors. Very efficient implementation of "bulk" commands (Find All, Replace All, Find in Files and Replace in Files) combined with unique features of Hex Editor's multiple selection feature, together form an invaluable editing tool. A concept of named regular expression classes even allows you to define recursive grammars.

· Window Switching

Hex Editor now provides fast and convenient tool that can be used to instantly activate any visible tool window or editor window. When you press Ctrl + Tab or Ctrl + Shift + Tab (user configurable), a navigation window is displayed. It provides the list of visible tool windows and all opened editor windows for you to activate.

· Code Pane

Hex Editor now provides you with a method to completely hide a code pane, leaving only the text pane visible. Combined with the auto columns mode, it is a powerful tool to edit text or binary-text data.

· Default Layouts (Three Different Ones)

When you run the Hex Editor for the first time, you are provided with a choice of default working layout. You can choose between a "Novice User Layout", "Advanced User Layout" and "Expert User Layout". You can later change the chosen layout or make your own.

Updated Features

· Major performance boost

This release introduces a number of major performance optimizations that affect most Hex Editor functions. In general, the following performance boost is estimated:

Fill, Delete, Cut and Paste - when they operate over a multiple selection - have up to 3x performance boost.

Similar numbers refer to Find in Files and Replace in Files functions.

Version 4.41.01.1551

Released on: 5/28/2008

Fixed Bugs

· Several bugs

A number of reported bugs have been fixed. Upgrade is strongly recommended.

Version 4.41.00.1523

Released on: 5/16/2008

Fixed Bugs

· Several bugs

A number of reported bugs have been fixed.

New Features

· Printing Support

Full printing support is now available in Hex Editor Neo.

· Case Change Operations

Hex Editor Neo now offers three new Data Operations: Lower Case, Upper Case and Invert Case. Case change operations take into account current encoding and are capable to work with Unicode data.

· Application-Wide Byte Order Support

Hex Editor Neo now fully supports both little-endian and big-endian byte orders. Different byte order can be set separately for each editor window and there is an option that controls whether floating-point types are affected by byte order change. Byte order change commands have been removed from Data Inspector and Structure Viewer modules, as they now respect the byte order configured for a window.

· Modify Bits Command

New Modify Bits command allows you to see a visual binary representation of the number and modify individual bits.

· Copy and Cut Work Without Selection

Copy and Cut commands can now be used when there is no selection in the current editor window. In this case, only the cell under the cursor is copied/cutted into the Clipboard.

Updated Features

· Performance optimizations

A number of various performance optimizations have been done.

Version 4.33.01.1458

Released on: 5/5/2008

Fixed Bugs

· GPF Fixed

A program crash with new Toggle Tool Windows command has been fixed. A program crashes if there are any auto-hidden frames active at the time you use this command.

A whole document or a part of it may be encrypted and decrypted, using any installed block or stream cipher.

· Data Operations

A large set of data operation (bitwise, arithmetic and shifts) are provided.

· File comparison

Hex Editor provides two file comparison algorithms, which is fast and accurate and can be used to compare text and binary data files.

Updated Features

· Structure Viewer

Added little-endian/big-endian switch to the Structure Viewer.

Version 4.21.03.1184

Released on: 3/27/2008

Fixed Bugs

· History Purge command

Bugs in History Purge command have been fixed.

Version 4.21.02.1171

Released on: 3/25/2008

Fixed Bugs

· Several bugs fixed

A number of reported bugs (including application crashes) have been fixed.

Version 4.21.00.1149

Released on: 3/21/2008

Fixed Bugs

· Several bugs

A number of reported bugs (including application crashes) have been fixed.

New Features

· NTFS Streams

Hex Editor now fully supports NTFS alternate data streams. A special NTFS Streams Tool Window displays all streams for the currently active file, allows you to delete or rename them, open them for editing or create new streams.

This release has undergone several performance optimizations resulted in significant speed-ups in the following commands and features:

* A special image cache speeds up application loading time. This special cache stores pre-rendered vector images (which are used throughout the Hex Editor) to significantly reduce the application startup time, which was very small even before this cache was implemented!

* A numer of algorithm improvements allowed several editing functions to operate much faster and consume much less RAM. This include typing, inserting and deleting (with complex multiple selection).

* Several improvements were made to the Find in Files feature, leading to much less memory consumption by this function.

* File saving algorithms undergone several optimizations leading to smoother and faster saving.

· Find in Files

Find in Files is now capable of searching (and replacing) a pattern in file's named streams.

· File Attributes

File Attributes window now displays the total number of file's named streams, their size and the total size the file occupies on disk.

Version 4.11.02.1064

Released on: 3/11/2008

Fixed Bugs

· Several bugs

A number of reported bugs (including application crashes) were fixed.

Updated Features

· Processor support

Previous versions of Hex Editor Neo required SSE support. SSE support is not required anymore; instead, SSE is automatically used if available. Older processors are now supported.

Cancel button does not work for lengthy Create Patch operation. Fixed.

· Find in Files recently used folder

Find in Files pattern dialog does not restore recently used folder. Fixed.

· Saving bugs

Several bugs related to document saving have been fixed.

Version 4.11.00.1041

Released on: 3/5/2008

Fixed Bugs

· Several Bugs

Several reported bugs have been fixed.

New Features

· Built-In Explorer

Hex Editor now has two Windows Explorer-like windows as part of its user interface. They can be used to perform usual file and folder operations and also tightly coupled with Hex Editor. For example, you can open files in the editor by double-clicking them in the Explorer window simply dragging them to the editor's window.

· Encodings

Hex Editor is now capable of displaying text in the text pane according to a selected encoding. More than 130 different encodings are supported (subject to installed code page files and fonts). When the cursor is in the text pane, typed characters are also converted using the selected encoding. Encoding can be set separately for each editor window. Different ANSI, UNICODE, ISO, OEM, MAC, EBCDIC and country-specific encodings are supported.

· Checksum Calculation

Hex Editor supports 16 checksum calculation algorithms, including MD5, SHA-1, CRC-16, CRC-32 and others. Custom CRC algorithm is also provided. You can compute the checksum for the whole file or for the current (multiple) selection. Several checksums may be computed at the same time. Results are easily exportable and copyable to the Clipboard.

· Advanced Copy & Export

Selected document data may now be converted into a number of supported text formats and placed into the Clipboard or exported to a file. Space-separated or comma-separated numbers, raw text with selected encoding, programming language array declaration, Base64, UUencode and Quoted-Printable are among supported formats.

· Pasting Text

Text may now be pasted into the editor. Depending on the active pane, the text is either pasted "as is" (if the text pane is active), or parsed as a sequence of hexadecimal or decimal integers (if the code pane is active).